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Real Name: Wal
Lives In: Canterbury, NZ
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Local Customs: Letterboxes
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  • you see along the Roads you travel. big ones small ones, with company or without. the owners often a mile away, needing the car to get the bills, or leaving them for an other day

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    Local Customs: Christmas at the Beach
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  • South Island - Pohutukawa Tree, NZ Christmas Tree
  • Pohutukawa Tree, NZ Christmas Tree
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  • 2. Christmas Day..Boxing Day, after the Christmas Day, presents where unwrapped, boxes trown away, Boxing Day is ....BeachDay..everbody who can walk, drive or get walked, driven..finds the Beaches in NZ of both Islands. the water temp. is different from the north to the deep south..Akl: has around 16-18 water temp. CHCh around 14-16deg and Dunedin around 14deg..brrrrrbut, one will have a lot of space...Beaches Galore in NZ
    good for playing Beach volleyball, Cricket, Touch Rugby. great food goes without saying, all day.
    and with any luck, the NZ Christmas Tree...Pohutekawa is in full red Blossom*


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    Local Customs: Gottfried Lindauer..1839-1926...
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  • Gottfried Lindauer..1839-1926 first artist who portrait Maori People in New Zealand
    Huria Matenga 1909

    to be seen at the Suter Gallery in Nelson


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    Local Customs: Southern Son
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  • South Island - Maniototo by G.Sydney
  • Maniototo by G.Sydney
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  • Grahame Sydney..Painter. he can paint like a photographer takes the picture.. his beloved Maniototo, the Region of the lower South Island-Otago
    have a look at his website below


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    Website: www.grahamesydney.com
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    Comments for pepples46 about South Island
    nixca316 Mon Feb 19, 2007 04:18 UTC
     I liked the Otira Gorge tip on Rata trees.
    nipper1 Sat Jan 6, 2007 01:50 UTC
     wishing you a very happy n'year matey
    robertgaz Mon Nov 20, 2006 07:18 UTC
     So much to do... so much to see... such varied landscape... don't you agree?
    sebblit7 Thu Nov 9, 2006 09:48 UTC
     Hey Nice pic of the old museum
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